No one plans on an accident, yet about four thousand fatal car accidents occur in California each year—a high number second only to Texas. Because traffic accidents are unfortunately common, California requires drivers to carry at least the minimum car insurance requirements, including $15,000 in injury coverage per person, $30,000 in total injury coverage per accident, and $5,000 in property damage. Drivers who…
Car accidents are physically, emotionally, and financially distressing to all involved, especially when one or more motorists suffer injuries. Obtaining compensation after an accident cannot erase the pain and trauma, but it does relieve immediate financial hardship and brings car accident injury victims in California a sense of financial accountability and justice. One of the first questions a car accident victim asks when…
After an accident, an injury victim faces an overwhelming array of challenges, including physical pain, emotional distress, and often resulting financial hardship. The additional distress of learning that the driver responsible for a collision is uninsured leaves many car accident victims in California bewildered and unsure where to turn. Fortunately, a motorist or pedestrian hit by an uninsured driver in a collision in…
When pursuing legal recourse after a personal injury, time is of the essence. Personal injury cases in every state in the US are governed by statutes of limitations, which are legal provisions that set strict deadlines for filing claims after an injury occurs. As defined by Cornell Law School, a statute of limitations is a “law that bars claims after a certain period…
Not only are accidents frightening, unsettling to a victim’s sense of well-being, and often painful and debilitating, but they’re also legally complex, particularly in fault-based insurance states like California. Any car accident compensation claim involves legal complexities, but when an accident occurs in a rideshare vehicle—or in another car in a collision with a rideshare vehicle—it’s even more challenging. Navigating a rideshare accident…
A car accident causes a tremendous force on the human body. When the car comes to a sudden jarring halt in a collision, the driver and passengers continue to move forward at the speed the car was traveling until stopped by their seatbelts or by an impact against the interior of the vehicle. Even when traveling at a sedate 30mph, a 100-pound person…
California is known as a “driving state” due to the sprawling nature of its largest cities. Most residents drive rather than take public transportation to work and daily activities. With California’s busy roadways and large urban meccas, many car accidents occur daily, with an annual average of 250,000 accidents per year. California is a fault-based car accident state where it matters who causes…
Uber and Lyft have become increasingly popular with people looking to get from place to place easily, quickly, and at a relatively reasonable cost. But with more people utilizing rideshare services like Uber and Lyft, car and pedestrian accidents have increased significantly in recent years. While studies have been mixed in terms of determining a definitive cause-and-effect relationship between rideshare popularity and an…
Martinian & Associates Inc. is currently representing family members of a victim who was killed in a traffic accident in April. The accident – which occurred just before 7:00 am on Laguna Canyon Road – has garnered media attention because two of the parties involved are local area physicians. The doctors had allegedly been street racing when one doctor’s Tesla crossed into oncoming…
In April of last year, a fatal car accident on Laguna Canyon Road claimed the lives of two Southern California men. The incident involved a Tesla that had veered into oncoming traffic and collided with the men’s vehicle as they were traveling to Laguna Beach during the course of their work for a landscaping company. In an effort to help the family of…
